PHOTOS: Blaze destroys Pinetown storage units
Updated | By Portia Cele
Two storage facilities, where goods and produce sold by more than a hundred street vendors, are kept - has gone up in flames in the Pinetown CBD.
The units, which are located near a taxi rank on the corner of Old Main Road and Anderson Street, were gutted in the early morning blaze.
It's believed to have spread from the railway tracks nearby, where a group of homeless people started a fire to keep warm.
The mood is sombre among street traders who've gather to survey the damage.
A young man tries to salvage what's left of his goods sold daily in the #PinetownCBD. A fire broke out in the early hours of this morning off Anderson Street - destroying two informal storage facilities. Video - @misspcele. pic.twitter.com/XxIipcm6nw
— ECR_Newswatch (@ECR_Newswatch) July 24, 2019
A man who is in charge of the storage space - says at least 150 vendors keep their products there.
Each morning, they will take their goods out and sell it in the CBD. Vegetables, fruit, and gas cylinders - heard exploding in the fire - has been destroyed.
Live chickens were also killed in the blaze.
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A woman - who sells fresh produce in the vicinity - is devastated, and upset and says she does not know what to do.
Meanwhile Ward 18 councillor, Melanie Brauteseth who was also on scene, says they will be working closely with police investigators.
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